natetimm posted:

I work for the government on airplanes. Some of my co-workers:

1. Dude who is brothers with one of the big wigs, and a raging alcoholic. Drinks at the bowling alley at lunch every day. Comes in periodically after missing a few days having obviously been on a meth bender. Those occasions he's either still spun as gently caress or looks like 500 miles of bad road. We have to get a security clearance at work and he just barely eked by with 5 DUIs over about 20 years and some drug poo poo in his past because he admitted to everything on his record beforehand. Was eventually fired when he got his 6th DUI. Almost got re-hired a couple years later with a perfectly scoring resume until someone figured out who it was(they take the names off resumes to grade them). His job? Forklift operator.

2. Former Marine drill instructor who was forbidden from re-enlisting because he was abusing and hazing recruits too badly. If you know anything about the loving Marines that's a real accomplishment. Walking embodiment of a short guy complex, still treats people who allow it like they're recruits by yelling at them and running them down. He got a contractor fired and when the contractor returned to pick up his tool box he had a tiny little security lady in tow. Contractor guy, who was built like a linebacker, proceeded to beat the poo poo out of drill instructor guy while wearing security lady as a necklace until a group of 4 men managed to break it up. Drill instructor guy is still an rear end in a top hat, but somewhat more subdued.

3. A guy and his wife both work here. A guy in another building is loving that guy's wife. The angry husband challenges him to a fight after work at a nearby park. The husband gets his rear end kicked, doesn't divorce his old lady, and she still fucks that guy sometimes.

4. Two guys in management are both fooling around with the same lady in another building. They come to blows over it in a meeting with multiple big wigs from both our depot and the military present. Both men are married to other women who don't work here.